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Senior Technical Director Michael Muir mixes art and science in Smurfs 2
…I just really like the mix. Some technical directors are a little bit stronger as artists; others can be a little bit stronger as technicians. There’s a good mix, I… |
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Paul McCartney Web Chat Transcript
…be trying to make it up to the little dears by putting them in every single one of these films. I love them now and I apologize to the children… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…played on the idea that animated shorts came from our childhood but were just as complicated and complex as grown ups, if a little more invulnerable. The approach worked: “toons”… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…Kerry Butler (Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, both by Alan Menken, and Xanadu) decided to record Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust, an album of Disney songs, along… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the My Little Pony movie next year). Although technically a release from 2014, Studio Ghibli’s The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya [above right] was a movie that most of the… |
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Superman Classic creator Robb Pratt unveils Flash Gordon Classic
…production. Aladdin was huge, as were Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Things were really busy at Disney. I was learning at night at this union class, when… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…drawn out introduction for this review. Why? Because Open Season: Scared Silly offers very little to talk about, and even attempting to discuss it for a great amount of time… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…the world, little Arlo gets the plot moving when he encounters a human boy – yes, it seems humans evolved after all – and loses his Pop (in the usual… |
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A little bit of Pride
The DreamWorks SKG Fansite presents an audio interview with the producers of Father of the Pride, as they will be bringing a new audio interview on a daily basis until… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…are still the most memorable parts of the films. Disney would later redefine music in film with their first modern animated musicals such as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Even… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…Dugan who was the head of this group called ATAP, a research division for Google, she showed me the technology— the little phone that was more of a window into… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…the idiosyncrasies of its directors. The Sweatbox Review: Western audiences have had precious little opportunity to view documentaries on the venerable Studio Ghibli, Japan’s best known and most well regarded… |